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Originally Posted by Thankful Jane
Dear OBW,
Are you talking about the "lynching" of djohnson by Hope in post #56 (see below) or some other lynching? (I have put the rope in red.)
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If that had been the start of the problem, then there might be some validity. Yes, he may have spoken harshly. I do in my way at times, as do you, Matt, Ohio, and many others. I think that we all sometimes look back at some posts and wish we had said things a little differently.
I just went back quickly through the history of posts and see that there was a growing instance of push-back on what Don was speaking. He was primarily speaking of his own experience. And he has indicated that he was not responsible for leading others to think in this way. I have mentioned the comments by George that would seem to underpin that.
Still there are some who will do what they do and be what they be. And there will be things said by others at conferences, etc., that will send some in different ways. Like so many things that Lee said, there was generally something that offset it at some level. He was a weasel in that regard.
And the fact that parents directed their kids according to their belief system is not unique to the LC.
Actually, the little bit of that post about DJ was far from the whole of it. He really only questioned the value of the overall thread. Don then said much about a lot of where the discussion went. That was mostly others besides DJ.
He did return to DJ at the end, but it was clear that he was already responding to a crowd that had an agenda and an expected outcome. If we are so sure we know everything so well, why do we bother discussing? If it is that clear, even the LC faithful would capitulate. But many of the posts, both before and after this debacle started, were ranting at gossip and picking on Don’s experience and efforts to avoid those errors in Dallas, as flawed and/or unsuccessful as they may have been.
As for DJ, while I have come to appreciate his input for the most part, he has been on a sort of a tirade on this “addiction” thing. I’m not sure that it really applies. He keeps cycling back to these one or two short paragraphs about “addiction to Lee.” He doesn’t respond to the actual posts, but rants again about “addiction to Lee.” He may be right at some level, but such drive-by comments do not help any real dialog on the subject. Suggesting that it end is not unreasonable. Maybe it would have been better to suggest that all discussion center on factual observations and issues that we can really discuss. But it hardly resembles a lynching. The mob came later. And they were after Don. The guy hanging from the rope with a crowd below can’t do much lynching.
That’s my observation.
Again, this whole thing needs to turn back to something factual and observable rather than innuendo and gossip. I’m not blaming anyone. It got the way it did like a wildfire. We need some California National Guard helicopters to dump water on us all.
BTW. Despite the seeming heat in my “voice,” I still look forward to getting together sometime. I hope that this is also your sentiment.